To a point...97%+ of the spam I receive is sent to one e-addr (with 51.9% last month, and 38.6% this month so far, coming from sites hosted by wanadoo.fr, a sister company of that e-addr's ISP) and is dead easy to filter.
How's about adding a few high profile people's e-addr's in white text on a white background (like some of the spam I receive has some of its text), include a comment (also in white on white) saying something like: "This is my MP's e-addr"; and leave it up to them to take action against the spammers - once they get bogged down like we do I'm sure they'll do owt to fix the problem.
A critical bug in Konqueror and all of KDE becomes useless.
No probs, if KDE becomes unusable, I can switch to GNOME (if I want a Desktop), or a simple window manager (Blackbox, twm, etc) and still have a GUI; or I can just drop to a non-GUI usage and still get work done - even re-installing KDE without affecting other services running on the machine. If Windoze becomes unusable I have to re-install OS: no choice.
I think this guy should have told Microsoft first, waited, if they don't respond within 48 hours, report it.
M$ claim faster bug fixing that Linux-world. They now have the chance to prove it. If no fix arrives in the next week (being generous, I know), it exposes their fud and leaves them smelling of the Isle of Wight ferry; or something brown and steaming that comes out the back of cows...
But is it the spammers or the spammer hirers that ought to be clobbered?
My latest stats for received spam are that 41+% (360) of the last 873 spam that I have received have been spamvertising [porn] sites hosted by one ISP - wanadoo.fr [There have also been spamverts for wanadoo.nl hosted sites as well]
The irony is that my email ISP was recently bought out by wanadoo.fr which means that their hosted sites are providing 2/5 of the spam that they are then having to process for me. (And after constant moaning to wanadoo.fr I still receive the spam - I've got no intent of actually trying out the porn URLs given to see if they've actually done anything about it.)
it would be forced to ship a substandard version to European consumers
Doesn't the US Government already order M$ to ship a substandard version to the European consumers (encryption in US versions uses a larger bit key than the European version) but I don't rememeber them moaning about that.
If they invalidate the GPL in this manner and get away with it, won't they just have the effect of providing legel precedent for throwing out ALL software licenses and EULAs?
But if they don't, then it provides a stronger basis for [click-through] EULAs?
To address the problems with the graph scales being different, I've integrated the charts into two charts, of the same scale, listed in Windows chart order, showing the relative percentages [to the best of my printout/ruler & ASCII ability - accurate(ish) to approx 1%].
I would have posted ASCII graphs but the lameness filter wouldn't let me. Here is a summary of the issues with percentages and a "scale" factor:
The reasons to use Windows over Linux are it's integration with other M$ software (surprise-surprise: 70-0), the availability of software (68-13; 5x) and support (24-12; 2x). To use Linux, the reasons are Low Cost (60-18; 3.5x), Innovation (41-20; 2x), Confidence (39-19; 2x) and Secure (41-11; 3.5x).
The reasons not to use Windows are Quality/Vulnerabilities (79-23; 3x), Cost too high (64-2; 32x), scalable (28-8; 3.5x) and M$ monopoly (56-0). To avoid Linux: Lack of IDE (40-17; 2.5x), lack of road map (35-15; 2x), potential IP issues (28-15 2x). Also, a 27-8; 3.5x 'no concern' for using Linux over Windows.
This means that 16% of Linux implementations HAVE been affected by SCO's threats.
But in what way? There is nothing in the data to suggest that these 16 CIOs had changed from possibly implementing Linux to not doing so. In fact, perhaps because of the SCO debacle, it had brought Linux to the attention of some of these 16 CIOs to the point that they realise that (a) SCO is full of digested food and (b) Linux is actually good and cheap and so were actually going to now implement Linux.
Similarly, of the 84 that said the SCO had made no effect on their plans, were all 84 originally going to be installing Linux? Or were 83 of them actually going to ditch Linux in favour of Mac and this SCO debacle has obviously made no change to their decision?
The article does go on to say that 70 odd (73?) of them were planning to install Linux (I fink) which clearly states that possibly 11+ of those with no change of plan were planning to not install Linux anyway.
This is clearly a case where sentences should run concurrently.
Shirley that should depend if he comitted the crimes concurrently or consecutively? Was each From: forgery mailed at EXACTLY the same time? If so, then the punishment should be at the same time. If they were consecutive, then the punishment should be consecutive.
So things like... sysRequest... you can blame MS for these keys
The IBM System/38, and the AS/400 (that replaced it), that I operated also had a 'SysRqst' key on the terminals. It was used to provide system services, one of which (service: 1) was to start another terminal session, allowing 2 terminal sessions off one terminal (a bit like ALT-F1/F2). So mefinx that it actually came from IBM, not M$.
Oh, and as M$DOS was not really multitasking, pipes (eg 'cmd1 | cmd2') were emulated, via: 'cmd1 > tmp_file ; cmd2 < tmp_file' - cmd1 finished running before cmd2 started; if the "pipeline" was killed (^C) the tmp_file was often left lying around.
4) Ensure that American laws apply only to American citizens
It's illegal to drink alcohol in Saudia Arabia. Should the Saudis arrest and charge all Americans on entry with illegal Alcohol drinking, even though the offense actually happened in America where it's legal to drink? If you think this is stupid, it's exactly what the DMCA did to that Russian Programmer.
Also assume for a second that I am a sysadmin of Linux servers (I know, I know, this is a hypothetical) and I am served with notice from SCO. I pay the US$699 x however many servers I have.
Don't forget that the licence cost increases to $1399 on 15 Oct. [some] people have been trying to contact SCO regarding these licences, but have so far failed to get any info out of SCO. Is SCO just holding out until 15 Oct to ensure that they can charge [$1] over double? Or is it a case that they know their licences are either worthless or illegal or both?
So nice to have a left-handed keyboard: the left hand CTRL and ALT keys are in easy reach of the DELETE key just above the arrow keys, between the numeric keypad, on the left and the main keyboard on the right.
The Royal Institute Christmas Lectures a few years ago used marshmallows to provide the melt and thus find out the wavelength. Hardly novel...did they try to patent the chocolate method?
Yeah, really nice guys: They threaten to sue her for > $300M (sharing > 2000 songs at $150,000 each) and then go, oh we were silly billys, we got it wrong and wont sue you afterall (now). Just think of the stress that that law suit would have caused her; if it had been my mum she would probably have had a break down, possibly suffered another angina attack, etc (you should have seen the state she got in when she received a warning about an unpaid speeding ticket that wasn't even hers). I think it would only be right for her (Ward) to sue the RIAA for exactly the same amount that they were going to sue her ($300M+), or double it ($600M+), as compenstation for the stress the mistaken law suit would have caused. They may have apologised, but the stress damage has still been done.
This is like getting screwed over at a gas station because some dumbass decided that a gallon was equal to a pint
A few years ago, someone was trying to make the meringue for a Lemon Meringue Pie which required n Fluid Ounces of water to be added to the mix; they unfortunatley misread the instructions and added n pints of water (20x as much as required!) and was wondering why it wouldn't whisk up.
Also, there are two gallons in the "English" speaking world. The English one = 1.2 x the American one.
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To a point...97%+ of the spam I receive is sent to one e-addr (with 51.9% last month, and 38.6% this month so far, coming from sites hosted by wanadoo.fr, a sister company of that e-addr's ISP) and is dead easy to filter.
How's about adding a few high profile people's e-addr's in white text on a white background (like some of the spam I receive has some of its text), include a comment (also in white on white) saying something like: "This is my MP's e-addr"; and leave it up to them to take action against the spammers - once they get bogged down like we do I'm sure they'll do owt to fix the problem.
And the password (END PgDn RIGHT PgUp LEFT LEFT LEFT RIGHT DOWN RIGHT UP UP LEFT DOWN) will get you root on any machine. Enjoy. ^_^
Didn't he encrypt them using ROT26?
A critical bug in Konqueror and all of KDE becomes useless.
No probs, if KDE becomes unusable, I can switch to GNOME (if I want a Desktop), or a simple window manager (Blackbox, twm, etc) and still have a GUI; or I can just drop to a non-GUI usage and still get work done - even re-installing KDE without affecting other services running on the machine. If Windoze becomes unusable I have to re-install OS: no choice.
I think this guy should have told Microsoft first, waited, if they don't respond within 48 hours, report it.
M$ claim faster bug fixing that Linux-world. They now have the chance to prove it. If no fix arrives in the next week (being generous, I know), it exposes their fud and leaves them smelling of the Isle of Wight ferry; or something brown and steaming that comes out the back of cows...
Isn't there actually a test for an OS to be Unix (and as far as I remember SCO's [ex]products fail it)?
But is it the spammers or the spammer hirers that ought to be clobbered?
My latest stats for received spam are that 41+% (360) of the last 873 spam that I have received have been spamvertising [porn] sites hosted by one ISP - wanadoo.fr [There have also been spamverts for wanadoo.nl hosted sites as well]
The irony is that my email ISP was recently bought out by wanadoo.fr which means that their hosted sites are providing 2/5 of the spam that they are then having to process for me. (And after constant moaning to wanadoo.fr I still receive the spam - I've got no intent of actually trying out the porn URLs given to see if they've actually done anything about it.)
it would be forced to ship a substandard version to European consumers
Doesn't the US Government already order M$ to ship a substandard version to the European consumers (encryption in US versions uses a larger bit key than the European version) but I don't rememeber them moaning about that.
...would be in a unique position to comment on whether IBM actually did this
Which obviously requires SCO to tell Linus which code is the code in question. Can a subpoena contain a NDA?
I think everyone's missed the implied words in all M$ releases: "We haven't talked to a single M$ [Windows] only user who..."
If they invalidate the GPL in this manner and get away with it, won't they just have the effect of providing legel precedent for throwing out ALL software licenses and EULAs?
But if they don't, then it provides a stronger basis for [click-through] EULAs?
To address the problems with the graph scales being different, I've integrated the charts into two charts, of the same scale, listed in Windows chart order, showing the relative percentages [to the best of my printout/ruler & ASCII ability - accurate(ish) to approx 1%].
I would have posted ASCII graphs but the lameness filter wouldn't let me. Here is a summary of the issues with percentages and a "scale" factor:
The reasons to use Windows over Linux are it's integration with other M$ software (surprise-surprise: 70-0), the availability of software (68-13; 5x) and support (24-12; 2x). To use Linux, the reasons are Low Cost (60-18; 3.5x), Innovation (41-20; 2x), Confidence (39-19; 2x) and Secure (41-11; 3.5x).
The reasons not to use Windows are Quality/Vulnerabilities (79-23; 3x), Cost too high (64-2; 32x), scalable (28-8; 3.5x) and M$ monopoly (56-0). To avoid Linux: Lack of IDE (40-17; 2.5x), lack of road map (35-15; 2x), potential IP issues (28-15 2x). Also, a 27-8; 3.5x 'no concern' for using Linux over Windows.
"I want to jump out the window," he says.
Only problem: he can't as the windows' frozen before he could get there.
And be illegal under the DMCA...
This means that 16% of Linux implementations HAVE been affected by SCO's threats.
But in what way? There is nothing in the data to suggest that these 16 CIOs had changed from possibly implementing Linux to not doing so. In fact, perhaps because of the SCO debacle, it had brought Linux to the attention of some of these 16 CIOs to the point that they realise that (a) SCO is full of digested food and (b) Linux is actually good and cheap and so were actually going to now implement Linux.
Similarly, of the 84 that said the SCO had made no effect on their plans, were all 84 originally going to be installing Linux? Or were 83 of them actually going to ditch Linux in favour of Mac and this SCO debacle has obviously made no change to their decision?
The article does go on to say that 70 odd (73?) of them were planning to install Linux (I fink) which clearly states that possibly 11+ of those with no change of plan were planning to not install Linux anyway.
# graffiti -- it's legally dubious, ethically bogus, and patently ridiculous.
The USPTO should like it then.
This is clearly a case where sentences should run concurrently.
Shirley that should depend if he comitted the crimes concurrently or consecutively? Was each From: forgery mailed at EXACTLY the same time? If so, then the punishment should be at the same time. If they were consecutive, then the punishment should be consecutive.
So things like ... sysRequest ... you can blame MS for these keys
The IBM System/38, and the AS/400 (that replaced it), that I operated also had a 'SysRqst' key on the terminals. It was used to provide system services, one of which (service: 1) was to start another terminal session, allowing 2 terminal sessions off one terminal (a bit like ALT-F1/F2). So mefinx that it actually came from IBM, not M$.
Oh, and as M$DOS was not really multitasking, pipes (eg 'cmd1 | cmd2') were emulated, via: 'cmd1 > tmp_file ; cmd2 < tmp_file' - cmd1 finished running before cmd2 started; if the "pipeline" was killed (^C) the tmp_file was often left lying around.
4) Ensure that American laws apply only to American citizens
It's illegal to drink alcohol in Saudia Arabia. Should the Saudis arrest and charge all Americans on entry with illegal Alcohol drinking, even though the offense actually happened in America where it's legal to drink? If you think this is stupid, it's exactly what the DMCA did to that Russian Programmer.
Also assume for a second that I am a sysadmin of Linux servers (I know, I know, this is a hypothetical) and I am served with notice from SCO. I pay the US$699 x however many servers I have.
Don't forget that the licence cost increases to $1399 on 15 Oct. [some] people have been trying to contact SCO regarding these licences, but have so far failed to get any info out of SCO. Is SCO just holding out until 15 Oct to ensure that they can charge [$1] over double? Or is it a case that they know their licences are either worthless or illegal or both?
So nice to have a left-handed keyboard: the left hand CTRL and ALT keys are in easy reach of the DELETE key just above the arrow keys, between the numeric keypad, on the left and the main keyboard on the right.
I would say that generally Americans do not bring up their religion, unless they...are...trying to sell you something you aren't likely to buy
Like an SCO Linux licence.
The Royal Institute Christmas Lectures a few years ago used marshmallows to provide the melt and thus find out the wavelength. Hardly novel...did they try to patent the chocolate method?
Yeah, really nice guys: They threaten to sue her for > $300M (sharing > 2000 songs at $150,000 each) and then go, oh we were silly billys, we got it wrong and wont sue you afterall (now). Just think of the stress that that law suit would have caused her; if it had been my mum she would probably have had a break down, possibly suffered another angina attack, etc (you should have seen the state she got in when she received a warning about an unpaid speeding ticket that wasn't even hers). I think it would only be right for her (Ward) to sue the RIAA for exactly the same amount that they were going to sue her ($300M+), or double it ($600M+), as compenstation for the stress the mistaken law suit would have caused. They may have apologised, but the stress damage has still been done.
This is like getting screwed over at a gas station because some dumbass decided that a gallon was equal to a pint
A few years ago, someone was trying to make the meringue for a Lemon Meringue Pie which required n Fluid Ounces of water to be added to the mix; they unfortunatley misread the instructions and added n pints of water (20x as much as required!) and was wondering why it wouldn't whisk up.
Also, there are two gallons in the "English" speaking world. The English one = 1.2 x the American one.